“Look
where you’re going, nerd!” Laughter followed me as I hurried to my next class.
“Technically, I’m a fangirl, not a nerd,” I thought to myself. Finding a
seat by my friend Robbie, I sat down, sighing.

“Geez, I’m sorry.” He stood up. “But aren’t
you used to it right now? I mean, people have been calling you names for a long
time.”

“That doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt any less”
I said. “But, you’re right. I don’t really pay attention to those people
anymore.” I looked up to see Robbie concentrating on something. “Robbie
thinking? Alert the media!” I laughed.

“Oh please, I think more than you do, and if
you look at your grades versus mine, I think we can prove that.”

“Shots fired… Consider me hurt.” I put a hand
over my heart.

“But in all seriousness, I really think you
should stop with your obsession over Percy Jackson.” As he looked at my
increasingly angry face, he quickly added, “I mean, this is all for you. It’s
not healthy and everything. I mean, Percy Jackson isn’t real no matter how much
you want him to be.”

I probably looked like a charging bull. Zeus
knows, I definitely felt like it. “And who exactly was the person who wanted
Annabeth as her girlfriend for the first three books and nearly destroyed my
copy of the Battle of the Labyrinth when you read about the kiss?” My voice was
like steel. “No matter how many times I told you that Percabeth would happen
sooner or later, may I add.”

“At least I snapped out of it. I know that
the world of Percy Jackson doesn’t exist and it would be good for you to know
that too.”

I stood up and was about to start a rant but
the teacher came in.

“Settle down class. I am your new Biology
teacher, Mrs. Baker.” A small woman came in, with a leather jacket on. She
didn’t look that scary but she had this kind of aura around her that radiated
fear. She reminded me of someone, but I couldn’t really remember who.

“What happened to our other Biology teacher?”
I asked.

Mrs. Baker turned to me with a glare on her
face that froze me to my seat. “She has had a nervous breakdown, Ms.…?”

“Forman.” My mind was working at a thousand
miles a minute. Nervous breakdown. Leather jacket. That glare… “Dodds.”
I mutter. Robbie looked at me with a look of disbelief. I leaned over.
“Remember Mrs. Dodds?”

“I think you’re going a little bit too far.”

“No listen to me!” I whispered urgently.
“What did Mrs. Dodds always wear? A leather jacket. And how did Mrs. Dodds
become a math teacher?”

“The previous teacher had a nervous
breakdown…” Horror dawned on his face. “What do we do?”

I was about to answer when, “I believe
talking in class is not permitted. Both of you, please go into the hallway.” I
looked up to see Mrs. Baker/Dodds standing over us.

As soon as we were in the hallway, I turned
around. “We have to get out of here.”

“You’re kidding right? I mean this is school.
You are not supposed to run out of school. It’s against the law!”

“I’d rather break the law than be dead.” I
countered back.

“We don’t even know if your weird theory is
true! What if it’s not, huh?” Robbie’s face suddenly went slack. I turned
around to see Mrs. Dodds in all her Fury glory, whip and wings included. Robbie
took my hand. “I think your theory is true.”

“You think!? Run!”

Being chased by a Greek monster was something
that I dreamed about ever since I read Percy Jackson. But, I always woke up
before anything bad happened, before I got hurt. This wasn’t like that. This
was complete chaos. We bumped into teachers (who then turned around and yelled
at us for being truants ad completely missed the shriveled hag) and we crashed
into walls and when we finally made it out of the school, I bumped into
someone. Hard.

“What the hell?” I asked as I got up.

“What are you running from?” I pointed behind
me as Mrs. Dodds burst out of the school. The boy’s gaze followed my finger. He
sighed and took out a pen from his pocket. Wait, a pen? I looked more
closely at his face. Green eyes, black messy hair, an orange t-shirt… I took a
step back. “Who are you?”

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